ㅁotherisland

Entering this time-space, beholders navigate their own landscapes stepping on shiny foreign flimsy ground. When they exit through the point where they came, they confront the same passage, as we are born from land and go back to land in the end.

ㅁ is a Korean consonant letter phonetically similar to the English consonant m. Replacing m with ㅁ projects a stopping moment for visitors to contemplate: mother, other, island, land, mother is land, other is land. The shape of ㅁ is similar to the Chinese character 口, which means mouth, an opening to pass through.

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